Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, Apple is in trouble. For one, the demand for the new Power Macs has proved to be a mixed blessing. Anxious to avoid a repeat of 1993, when supplies of PowerBook laptops exceeded demand, Spindler's staff erred in the other direction, drastically underestimating the demand for the new line and failing to produce enough to meet orders. Apple expected growth for its computers to peak at 23% a year, a few points higher than the industry average for computers; demand growth, however, turned out to be a stunning 35%, says Tim Bajarin, a Silicon Valley computer marketing consultant...
Violation of the injunction could result in stiffer fines, up to $10,000 and up to ten years in prison, in the case of a repeat incident...
Hahnemann was a great believer in minimal intervention. To find how little medication could be given while still promoting healing, he began diluting his remedies. He would mix one part of an active ingredient with nine parts of water or alcohol, shake the solution briskly, then repeat the process as many as 30 times...
...heralded study, conducted by French researcher Jacques Benveniste and published by Nature in 1988, was challenged by a Nature-sponsored team of investigators who flew to Paris to watch Benveniste repeat his experiments. The team found that the tests were "ill-controlled" and failed to exclude "systematic error, including observer bias...
...began to take more seriously the fundamental claims which ethnic studies implied. Even those of us who make normative evaluations our primary goal while in college rarely take the time to question the very nature and role of the educational process. Are we mere technicians, taught to recognize and repeat various analytical techniques? Is there no deeper end to our studies, no more transcendental goal...